The Silent Reaper

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The Story of Zachary Sullivan started on a small ranch in the middle of a small midwestern american town with a population only just above two hundred people. The community was small and built up of farmers, most everybody knew eachother and that served the residents of the quaint town just fine. The town relied mainly on the produce of the cornfields and wheat as there was not a grocery store or large market in town or enough space to have much livestock, so trade and commerce revolved all around the crop for the most part. Zachary was born to two farmers in the town by the names of Vanessa and Jacob Sullivan, They had a small ranch and one of the smallest yet best maintained corn fields out of the town.

The years went by uneventfully in the quiet town, The days turned to weeks and months then years until fifteen years later a large drought hit the town. The drought didn't let up for months and with each week more of the towns crops would die. Eventually the only farm with food left was the Sullivan's. The Family barely had enough food to support itself let alone the entire town, The people of the town grew violent and stormed the Sullivan's ranch, Jacob tried to persuade the violent mob to leave but he was surrounded and beaten to death by three of the local youths named John, David, and Ben. Zachary watched from the violence from the loft overlooking the porch. The mob continued to break into the house and Zachary heard the screams of anguish as his mother was killed from the aggressive crowd followed by the sounds of his house being torn apart by the people in a frenzied search for any food they could find. Zachary watched the people who were his formed neighbors and friends stream from his house out into the cornfields with whatever food they could find and he felt a deep hate grow inside him as he watched them cut down the crop his family had worked so tirelessly to produce just for the mob to kill his parents and steal everything from him. The only thought he had in his head that stood out of the anger and rage he felt was crops, and how if you want them to be perfect you must take care of them and be slow not to rush it all. Zachary wanted to nurture the feelings he had so when he finally could have his payback on the bastards who killed his parents and he could reap the seeds of rage being planted and be satisfied by the bounty and savor the sweet satisfaction of the job. Zachary plot his payback and plan and plan in every waking moment he could, and soon, the mob would reap what they had unknowingly sewn.